Shade-holder.



No. 734,874. PATENTED JULY 28, 1903.

H. HUBBELL. SHADE HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED MAE. a, 1002. no MODEL.

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l 1 UNITED STATES PATENT Patented July 28, 1903.

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SHADE-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 734,874, dated July28, 1903. Application filed March 5, 1902. Serial No. 96,785. (Nomodel.)

Be it known that LHARVEY HUBBELL,a citizen of the'United States,residing at Bridgeport, county of Fairfield, State of Connecticut, haveinvented a new and useful Shade- Holder, of which the following is aspecification.

My invention has for its object to provide a simple and inexpensiveshade-holder adapt-- ed for general use, but more especially adapted forholding incandescent-lamp shades,

which shall be made wholly from a single piece of sheet metal and formedentirely by machine-work and which shall be so constructed as to do awaywith ears and clamping-screws for retaining it in place, but will by itsown resiliency adapt itself to all ordinary variations in the sizes oflamps.

With these and other objects in view my invention consists in certainimprovements in the details of construction, which will be hereinafterdescribed and then specifically pointed out in the claim hereuntoappended.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, Figure1, is a plan 1 View of my novel shade-holder, and Fig. 2 is a section onthe line 2 2 in Fig. 1.

l0 denotes the angular shade-ring, which is provided with the usual ears11, having threaded hubs 12 to receive attaching-screws.

13 denotes the attaching-ring, and 14 arms connecting the attaching-ringwith the angular shade-ring.

It is an important feature of my novel shadeholder thatthe angularshade-ring, with its. ears and threaded hubs, the attaching-ring, andthe arms connecting the rings are all blanked out at a single operationand are formed complete-that is, without additional parts-by mechanicaloperations, thus doing away with l the expense of additional parts andthe expense of their attachment in place by soldering, riveting, orthreading. The attaching-rin g is provided with a rolled thread 15,whereby the shade-holder and the shade carried thereby may be attachedto a lamp.

tudinally a portion of the length of the arms,

the slots being shown in the drawings as extending approximately to themid-length of the arms. The length of the slots is of course a meredetail of construction that may be left entirely to the taste andjudgment of the manufacturer, it being required to give theattaching-ring sufficient resiliency to adapt it to engagelamps havingthe usual variations of the different styles and at the same timenecessary that the parts retain suficient .1 rigidity, so that theshade-holder will be securelyself-retaining in place when attached to alamp.

Haviug thus described my invention, I claim- A shade-holder consistingof an angular shade-ring having attaching-ears provided with threadedhubs, an attaching-ring provided with a rolled thread, and armsconnecting the shade-ring and the attaching-ring,

said arms being provided with stifiening-ribs and the attaching-ringbeing provided with transverse slots which also extend a portion of thelength of the arms, said rings and arms being blanked out and formedcomplete from a single piece of sheet metal.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

HARVEY HUBBELL.

Witnesses:

A. M. Woosrua, S. W. ATHERTON.

